Enigmatic Early Horizon Occupations: Las Pampas de Panecillo and the Alto Piura

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The department of Piura includes a significant portion of the modern national border between Ecuador and Peru and remains under-studied archaeologically. Pioneering studies of the Alto Piura in the final decades of the twentieth century introduced the site of Cerro Ñañañique to discussions of the border between the Central and Northern Andes. Beyond this site, however, our knowledge of occupations in this important potential corridor of interaction during the final two millennia BCE remains superficial. In this paper I will review the existing data on the Alto Piura and discuss new excavations at Las Pampas de Panecillo, a non-monumental site located near the Yapatera River. I will consider evidence of interactions at various scales and explore phenomena that could have resulted in the enigmatic Early Horizon material record recovered including short-term occupations, mobility, and ritual.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39631.0